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Monthly Archives September 2022

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – EPL vs. CPL (Aug 2019, Feb 2022)

I’ve had the pleasure of visiting both the newly built Calgary Public Library Central Branch (in 2019) and newly-refurbished Edmonton Public Library (in 2022). And you know what? Newly built or refurbished, both are incredible libraries in their own ways with the main thing they have in common is both cities embracing the value of […]

Posted 29 September 2022 § Humour § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § Sports § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Swearing Is Actually A Sign of More Intelligence – Not Less – Say Scientists

I am a huge fan of scientific knowledge that help justify my potty mouth! (And my kids are clearly geniuses as they named their band, “The Shits”!) 😉

Posted 28 September 2022 § Family § Humour § Pace § Photo § Sasha § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

DART Impact Video

Follow up to a post from last week… Same video as before of ATLAS observing the DART impact, but tracked sidereally (with the stars). Each frame is about 40 seconds, and the entire sequence is about two hours. pic.twitter.com/p7Sgvfu2CK — ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022  

Posted 27 September 2022 § News § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “The high black water, a devil’s daughter/She’s hard, she’s cold and she’s mean/But nobody taught her, it takes a lot of water/To wash away New Orleans”

“Hurricane” – Band of Heathens

Posted 26 September 2022 § MusicMonday § News § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Secular Sunday – Waiting For The Rapture (But Not For Too Long I Guess?)

There should be (is there?) a Wikipedia page that lists all of the wrong dates that have been predicted for The Rapture/Second Coming/End of the World. (I wonder how easily those stickers come off a car?)

Posted 25 September 2022 § SecularSunday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Saturday Snap – Trying on Dad’s Glasses

I joke that when I picked out these glasses, I asked “Do you have anything that will make me look like a cross between John Lennon and Harry Potter?”  😉

Posted 24 September 2022 § Humour § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)

No big deal – NASA is only planning to shoot an asteroid out of space in a day or so!  

Posted 23 September 2022 § FridayFunLink § News ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Working Man (October 2011)

Posted 22 September 2022 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Best Wrestling Promo Ever

Posted 21 September 2022 § Humour § Jobs § PopCulture § Sports ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Twenty-Four Hours in the Cheapest All-Inclusive Resort in Playa Del Carmen

Posted 20 September 2022 § MemoryLane § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,